From the 12 fl. oz. bottle marked 3411-10:18. Sampled on Leap Day - Feb 29, 2012. The pour is a slightly cloudy medium amber with a generous fluffy tan head. It leaves a lot of lacing on the glass. The aroma is alive with sweet malts, yeast, coriander and other spices, with a slight hop coating. The body is medium. The flavor is of candied malts and pepper. It ends fairly dry. I liked it.

The appearance is a dark amber color that does not allow much light to pass through. It poured with a 3/4 inch head and looked like a classic ale.

The smell is pleasant. It has a dark, nutty smell with a touch of brown sugar.

The taste is crisp, nutty, sweet, and refreshing. I think it tastes great. Balance is a term often used in describing beer but this brew really does have it all in regard to balance. A beer this smooth with an alcohol content of 7% is hard to find.

The mouth feel is light and refreshing, a contrast to its color and nutty characteristic. Before the first sip I prepared for a heavy taste and feel, but got the opposite.

Pours nice and brown with a creamy-looking head. Nose has a nice foundation of yeasty smells, but gets ruined (for me) by a sharp burnt rubber aroma mixed with some cooked corn.

Cooked corn overtones spoil most of the taste for me as well. Aftertaste of rubber. I feel like I am exhaling rubber fumes after I swallow. Either this is a bad bottle, or this just has a terrible mismatch of flavors for me. I will have to try this again at some point in the future.

This is the first Allagash beer I have enjoyed. I have heard a lot of good things about these beers and have accumulated a good stock of some of their other limited production beers that are in various stages of aging. Anyway, back to the dubbel...(drinking it as I am writing)

A: Golden brown with a nice head and carbonationS: Fruity and light, pleasantT: Very nice, fruits with almost a light plum flavor (I did just get finished drinking some pretty steep stouts!!)M: Sweet and light, creamy and niceO: Really good beer, a good start for my first Allagash!

750ml brown glass bottle with hood and wire cap over a cork served into a Guinness goblet in low altitude Los Angeles, California. Reviewed live. Expectations are quite high; I've yet to have a bad beer from Allagash. I'm really looking forward to this. Paired with pretzel goldfish. Served refrigerator cold and allowed to warm up over time. Batch 100.

A: Pours a two finger head of fair cream and thickness, and great retention - especially for the high ABV. Colour is a nontransparent caramel-amber. Appealing for the style. I expected it to be a bit darker.

Dr/Ov: This would age fantastically. Extremely drinkable for the ABV. I'd definitely have this again, preferably aged (in a bottle, obviously). A fantastic dubbel. Allagash still has yet to disappoint me.